Afterburn 4.0 – Triggering Canned FX

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Afterburn 4.0 – Triggering Canned FX

Written by amckay

Level: Intermediate

Following on from the previous tutorial, we then take our explosion and link it up to another system. In this case, its killer teapots! (Yes I was too lazy to make any actual planes flying around). The concept is very similar to the airstrike CG Academy DVD I created some years ago, however updated for Afterburn 4.0. This is a demonstration of creating canned FX and then being able to hook them up to other effects to control the entire thing through some basic controls you set up, rather than manually having to do all of this by hand.

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Posted on January 15th, 2009

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3 Responses to "Afterburn 4.0 – Triggering Canned FX"

Simone says:

November 24, 2009
9:47 pm

Hi Allan,

Great tutorial, I like also these zoom during the playback, it helps to see better what’s going on!

Can’t wait for the next one!

Cheers.

maikel says:

December 6, 2009
6:03 am

Thanks Allan, fantastic and easy to understand, if perhaps a little bit too dark at the beginning. I could hardly see the smoke with the black environment!
Nice job!